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Laura, who runs her own green-fingered business, the Mount Road Gardening Co, said: “I’ve seen similar things on Pinterest and recycling and gardening websites using bottles to make greenhouses and cold frames and thought I’d give it a go using the existing octagonal shape.

“It’s something I’ve fancied doing for years.

Close up view of the greenhouse

“It’s ever so easy to do, you just cut the base from each bottle and slide them onto a pole, stacking them neck end up into the removed base.

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“Any clear plastic bottles can be used, the larger the bottle the fewer you need. I have found that using the same type of bottle on each ‘row’ helps them look neater.

“I’d recommend anyone to have a go, it’d make a great playhouse for kids or storage space, plus it can all be recycled at the end of the year.”

Laura, who lives with her sister Sara in Mount Road near to Hinckley town centre, is appealing for people to help her in the project and donate any empty bottles.

A drop box has been put in the front garden for people to leave them.

The raw materials for the greenhouse

She is hoping the venture will inspire others and also further raise awareness of the menace of plastic waste.

Since China stopped accepting imports of plastic for recycling the UK has finally been forced to wake up to the problem.

In 2016 some 800,000 tonnes of plastic was sent overseas with China and Hong Kong taking half of that.

This and recent outcries over excessive packaging and plastic pollution, including shocking images of plastic waste in the ocean during David Attenborough’s Blue Planet II series, have raised the ante on the issue.

This month the Government promised a crackdown on throwaway plastics.

Under the 25-year plan, supermarkets will be urged to introduce “plastic-free” aisles while taxes and charges on single-use items such as takeaway containers will be considered.

The 5p charge for plastic carrier bags is being extended to all retailers in England while there will be funding available for plastics innovation.

Announcing the initiative PM Theresa May said: “We look back in horror at some of the damage done to our environment in the past and wonder how anyone could have thought that, for example, dumping toxic chemicals into rivers was ever the right thing to do.”

She called plastic waste “one of the great environmental scourges of our time”, adding: “In the UK alone, the amount of single-use plastic wasted every year would fill 1,000 Royal Albert Halls.”

Major food and beverage firms are already taking their own stand. Coca-Cola has pledged to intensify recycling efforts and develop better and more eco-friendly packaging, McDonald’s, Danone, Unilver, Mars PepsiCo, Marks and Spencer and Procter and Gamble have made similar commitments.

Grocers, Marks and Spencer, Iceland and Waitrose have also promised to up their game and focus on reducing plastic packaging.

Some of Laura’s bottles have been collected by herself during litter picks, an activity which has highlighted to her the significance of the litter problem in Hinckley town centre.

She said she was hoping to start a weekly local litter pick over the summer.